Identity
Person No.
6484
Service No.
42052
Last Name
First Name
Jeffrey Hugh
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J H
Date of Birth
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Cause of Death
Killed in action, Stirling I W7501, shot down by night fighter pilot Oblt Ludwig Becker of the 6./NJG 2, flying a Do 215 B-5 or Bf 110 from Leeuwarden airfield on operational flight over Lubeck, Germany. Target was the Altstadt which comprised mainly timbered houses, so half of the 400 tons of bombs were incendiary devices. 62% of all dwelling in Lubeck were either destroyed or badly damaged - mainly residential. Believed crashed into the North Sea off the Frisian Islands
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Son of William Henry Hinchcliffe Edwards and Lily Edwards, of Surrey. On war memorial for King Edward VII School, Johannesburg.
Citation
Unknown
External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project